British actor Hugh Laurie, who has found worldwide fame in US drama, House, has claimed that Britain has ’slammed it’s door’ on him since his career took him to America.

Hugh told the Radio Times: “There’s a notion that I’ve sold out. Sold out what? There’s a peculiar British attitude that I took an oath I wouldn’t be successful, and reneged on it.”

The former Blackadder actor added that he had not been offered any work in Britain since he started on House four years ago, saying: “The door slammed behind me, and that’s it.”